CVE-2015-8950

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel which does not initialize certain data structures used by DMA transfer on ARM64 based systems. This could allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by triggering a dma_mmap call and reconstructing the data.

This issue doesn't affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,6,7 and MRG-2. This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

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